{"id":1861,"date":"2010-05-08T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:11:22","slug":"a_further_note_on_cape_wind_fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1861","title":{"rendered":"A Further Note On Cape Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 6, Rich Trzupek posted an article about the Cape Wind Farm.&nbsp; Since this seems to be moving ahead, I thought I would print some of the objections from the right and from the left.&nbsp; Mr. Trzupek posted the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/05\/06\/the-wind-farm-scam\/\">FrontPageMag.com<\/a>, which is a website run by David Horowitz, a former 60&#8217;s radical, now a conservative.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In the article, Mr. Trzupek cites Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.&#8217;s statement about the wind farm,&nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s a boondoggle of the worst kind. It&#8217;s going to cost the people of Massachusetts $4 billion over the next 20 years in extra costs.&#8221;&nbsp; Mr. Kennedy is an environmental lawyer that you would expect to support &#8216;green&#8217; energy.&nbsp; Mr. Trzupek agrees with the above statement.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article further states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;I recently asked an energy executive why his company was investing in wind-power so heavily, when we both know it doesn&#8217;t make any economic sense to do so. His reply was that it&#8217;s all about the government subsidies. Once those run out, they intend to forgo any further &#8211; very expensive &#8211; maintenance, run the things till they break down and then forget about them. Given the high cost of wind power, and the fact that you have to have an equivalent amount of fossil power ready to back up wind energy (since the wind doesn&#8217;t blow all the time outside of the halls of Congress) it&#8217;s reasonable to assume that this fellow isn&#8217;t the only person in the energy industry thinking along such lines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I think all of us would like to see cleaner, cheaper energy, but this is not the way to go.&nbsp; Please follow the link to the article referenced here to read how campaign money is influencing the government subsidies of the Cape Wind Farm.&nbsp; This is a true example of &#8220;follow the money.&#8221;&nbsp; Unfortunately it is also a true example of how to take away money from the taxpayers and the consumers of electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 6, Rich Trzupek posted an article about the Cape Wind Farm.&nbsp; Since this seems to be moving ahead, I thought I would print some of the objections from the right and from the left.&nbsp; Mr. Trzupek posted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}